BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 19 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * ACLU of Massachusetts comment on Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti The U.S. Supreme Court today issued its ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a challenge brought by three transgender adolescents, their families, and a Memphis-based medical provider against a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender people under 18. Th more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, June 19 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth Accessible in Michigan Despite U.S. Supreme Court Ruling DETROIT - Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti that allows Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth to remain in effect - as can the bans currently enacted in 25 other states throughout the country. Mich more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 19 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Albuquerque Stands United Against Trump Attacks on Immigrant Communities Albuquerque, NM - At a press conference at El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos, local immigrant-based and serving organizations, elected officials including Mayor Tim Keller, Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives Javier Martinez, the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bis more PR

NEW YORK, June 19 -- The Vera Institute of Justice, an organization that says its mission is to end overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants and people experiencing poverty, issued the following news release: * * * After Targeted ICE Arrests Vera Institute Calls on NY Leadership to Hold Special Session to Increase Funding for Immigrant Legal Defense After the arrest by ICE of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, Shayna Kessler, director of the Advancing Univ more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 17 [Category: Aerospace] -- The Aerospace Industries Association posted the following news release: * * * AIA Welcomes U.S.-U.K. Deal to Remove Tariffs on Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines * Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Eric Fanning released the following statement today after President Trump announced a deal with the United Kingdom to remove tariffs on commercial aircraft and jet engines.  "AIA welcomes today's announcement to lower trade bar more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSxrep) -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary on June 18, 2025: * * * Highlights of the 2025 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports By Michael Baker and Jordan Haring Executive Summary * The Social Security and Medicare Trustees today released their annual reports on the financial status of the nation's two largest entitlement programs; the reports reiterate a past conclusion: Social Security and Medicare are approaching insolvency. * Th more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Americans for Financial Reform, which describes itself as a nonpartisan and nonprofit coalition of more than 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith-based, and civic and community groups, issued the following news release: * * * Senate Passes Huge Giveaway to Crypto Industry, Big Tech and Trump Family Stablecoin bill clears last Senate vote without any strengthening amendments * The GENIUS Act (S.1582) took another step closer to becoming law afte more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Americans for Tax Fairness issued the following news release on June 17, 2025: * * * ATF Applauds All Democratic Senators Uniting to Oppose Trump's Disastrous Tax Bill & Tax Breaks for the Ultra-Wealthy Trump Tax Bill to Make Massive Cuts to Medicaid & SNAP while Giving Billions in Tax Giveaways to Big Business & Billionaires Today, ahead of the Senate GOP's effort to push through their billionaire-backed reconciliation bill, Senators Schumer, Wyden, Gallego, and Warre more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Daryl G. Kimball, executive director, Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy and Thomas Countryman, chair of the board of the Arms Control Association, issued a statement cautioning against reported U.S. military intervention in support of Israel's attacks on Iran. They argue that such involvement would jeopardize U.S. and global security, increase the risk of nuclear proliferation, and complicate efforts to achieve a nuclear agreement with Iran. The Arms more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Animal Welfare Institute issued the following agency statement on June 18, 2025: * * * AWI Statement on Trump Administration's Plan to Reduce Animal Experimentation Amid Attack on Science The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds recent announcements by the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration about their plans to reduce the use of animals in research and testing. At the same time, however, the Trump administration has moved to cu more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSrpt) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * By the Numbers: Senate Republican Leadership's Tax Agenda Favors the Wealthy and Leaves Millions of Working Families Behind The Senate Republican leadership's reconciliation bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families. Here are some of the impacts: The Senate bill r more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * Senate Bill Expands Medicaid Work Requirements to Include Some Parents, Would Take Away Coverage From Millions: State and Congressional District Estimates By Elizabeth Zhang and Gideon Lukens The Senate Finance Committee released a bill that would make the harsh Medicaid work requirements in the House bill even more damaging by extending them to parents of children over age 14./[1] CBPP est more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSrep) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following commentary on June 18, 2025: * * * Social Security Trust Funds Would Be on Stronger Footing If Not for Trump Economic, Immigration Policies By Kathleen Romig The 2025 Social Security trustees' report (https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2025/index.html) projects that the Social Security Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability trust fund reserves will be depleted in 2034, one year earlier than last year's repor more PR

NEW YORK, June 19 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release on June 17, 2025: * * * Civil Rights Groups Demand Department of Energy Withdraw Rule Rolling Back Civil Rights Protections WASHINGTON -- Today, the NAACP, along with a coalition of allied organizations that includes LatinoJustice PRLDEF and other legal experts, filed formal comments urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to immediately withdraw a dangerous rule that dismantles long-standing civil rights protectio more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSrep) -- The Center for a New American Security issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * New CNAS Report on Next Phase of Quad Cooperation in Indo-Pacific By Lisa Curtis, Kareen Hart, Ryan Claffey, Keerthi Martyn, and Thomas Corel Today, the Center for a New American Security released a new report, Quad: The Next Phase (https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/quad), by Lisa Curtis (https://www.cnas.org/people/lisa-curtis), Kareen Hart (https://www.cn more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * Coalition Files Suit Challenging DOGE Attacks on Congressionally-Approved STEM Programs * Organizations Representing Educators and Researchers Unite to Stop Trump Threats to Agency Dedicated to the Advancement of Science A coalition of organizatio more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: * * * Congressional Republicans' Tax Scam Would Raise the Estate Tax Threshold While Slashing Healthcare for Millions * Although less than 1% of American families are subject to the estate tax, a striking 18% of House and 28% of Senate Republicans are wealthy enough to benefit President Tru more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following news release: * * * Consumer groups call for alcohol to be included in the push to reduce chronic disease Twenty-four prominent consumer, public health, and food allergy groups are today calling on the Trump administration to include alcohol in efforts to reduce chronic disease. The Center for Science in the Public Interest and other organizations wrote to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants * SAN FRANCISCO-- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic a more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on June 18, 2025: * * * Options for Targeting Iran's Fordow Nuclear Facility By Heather Williams In order to achieve its stated objective of dismantling Iran's nuclear program, Israel will need to take out a key Iranian facility, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Fordow is buried deep under a mountain near Qom and is believed to be one of the key sites of Iran's nuclear enrichment activi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on June 18, 2025: * * * Reinforcing Support for Adolescent Girls and Young Women as PEPFAR Priorities Evolve By Janet Fleischman Women and girls in Africa are at escalated risk of violence, exploitation, poverty, and HIV infection, due to the Trump administration's abrupt shuttering of more than 80 percent of the United States Agency for International Development and 70 percent of the ag more PR

NEW YORK, June 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release: * * * Despite Rampant ICE Crackdowns, Albany Fails Immigrants this Session * ALBANY, NY - After the New York State legislative session ended without passing a single bill to protect immigrant communities, the New York Civil Liberties Union released the following statement, attributable to Senior Policy Counsel Zach Ahmad : "As ICE terrorizes New York's immigrant communities, the New more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Open Most of the Western Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling * Anchorage, Alaska -- The Department of Interior yesterday released a draft environmental analysis selecting a disastrous drilling plan for the Western Arctic that would allow oil and gas drilling on 82% of the public lands within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alas more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 -- Equality California issued the following news release: * * * Equality California Condemns Supreme Court Decision Upholding State Ban on Healthcare for Transgender Youth Washington, D.C. -- Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in the case of Skrmetti v. United States, which upheld Tennessee's ban on lifesaving healthcare for transgender youth. "Healthcare decisi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * FDA Commissioner's National Priority Vouchers Will Endanger Americans * The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a program that will shorten review times assessing safety and efficacy for some new drugs to one to two months. Right now, typical review times are 10-12 months after the company's final drug application and six months for priority reviews. The "Commissioner's Nationa more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute posted the following news release: * * * Fed keeps interest rates steady, uncertainty over tariffs still looms: CEI analysis * The Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest rates steady in its goal to lower overall inflation. While there have been fewer shakeups in the financial sector than previously expected, upcoming deadlines for tariff promises and a dubious economy are keeping the Fed in an awkward pos more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * GIFFORDS Law Center, Brady urge court to keep machine gun conversion devices out of American communities 16 attorneys general filed a lawsuit to block ATF from distributing forced reset triggers to civilians without background checks, even in states where they are banned * WASHINGTON -- Today, GIFFORDS Law Center and Brady filed an amicus br more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Heritage Foundation issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Heritage Applauds Supreme Court Decision Upholding Tennessee's Law Protecting Minors WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today released a 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, holding that Tennessee's law protecting minors from surgical mutilation and dangerous drugs intended to implement gender transitions is not a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and sati more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Republicans' Medicaid Cuts Are Deeply Unpopular * Bad news for Medicaid-cutting congressional Republicans: three new polls this week confirmed that Americans are not on board with the Trump-endorsed "Big, Beautiful Betrayal." Per POLITICO, just 10% of Americans believe Republica more PR

NEW YORK, June 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release: * * * Immigrant Advocates Decry Albany's Failure to Pass the New York for All Act * ALBANY -- As the state legislative session came to a close, leaders faced an urgent choice: put their words condemning the federal administration's onslaught against immigrant New Yorkers into action, or let their talk be just that -- talk. By failing to pass the New York For All Act, they chose the la more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * In Line with Trump's Plan, Big Pharma Insists on Hiking Drug Prices Abroad - What a Shock. * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- High drug prices in the U.S. are a result of pharmaceutical companies' price gouging, despite false rhetoric from Big Pharma and President Trump that blames other countries, according to a new Public Citizen fact sheet. President Trump recently unveiled plans to work to raise pri more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump's Efforts to Weaken Habitat Protections for Imperiled Wildlife * WASHINGTON-- The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to release public records about its proposal to rescind the long-standing definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act's regulations. The proposed change marks the administratio more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Demand Justice issued the following news statement on June 18, 2025: * * * MAGA Justices Rule Against Life-Saving Care For Trans Youth And Deal Blow To Equal Protection Clause Washington, DC - In response to today's 6-3 Supreme Court's ruling upholding Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for transgender youth, Demand Justice Interim Executive Director Maggie Jo Buchanan released the following statement: "This ruling fails to consider the horrific impacts of denyi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters posted the following news release: * * * MEMO: Senate Republican's Big Ugly Bill Is Still a Disaster for Household Energy Costs and Clean Energy * FROM: Matthew Davis, Vice President of Federal Policy, League of Conservation Voters TO: Interested Parties MEMO: Senate Republican's Big Ugly Bill Is Still a Disaster for Household Energy Costs and Clean Energy Senate Finance Republicans Follow the House's Le more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * Minority and Women-Owned Business Groups Oppose Proposed Agreement that Threatens Landmark Remedial Program * Filing Argues the Proposal Would Eliminate a Vital Tool to Help Remedy Discrimination in Transportation Contracting Frankfort, KY -- A c more PR

NEW YORK, June 18 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * PEN America Urges Full Reinstatement of Global Media Outlets as U.S. Recalls Persian-Language Journalists * (WASHINGTON)--With the U.S. government restoring Voice of America (VOA)'s Persian-language operations due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, PEN America today urge more PR

NEW YORK, June 19 -- Physicians for Reproductive Health issued the following statement on June 18, 2025: * * * SCOTUS Harms Trans Youth This morning the Supreme Court of the United States issued their decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti and determined that a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for people under 18 does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. While this does not affect access to gender affirming care in states without bans, this allows bans to continue in states where they are in  more PR

NEW YORK, June 18 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * Reinstate All Journalists at U.S. Global Media Outlets With Those Recalled from Voice of America Persian-Language Service * (WASHINGTON)--With the U.S. government restoring Voice of America (VOA)'s Persian-language operations due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, PEN Am more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Families USA, a nonpartisan consumer health advocacy organization, issued the following news release: * * * SCOTUS Decision on Gender-Affirming Care Denies Treatment for Trans Youth and Their Families and Sets Dangerous Precedent for Future Attacks on Americans' Health WASHINGTON, D.C. - Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, issued the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, which upheld Tennessee's b more PR

MONONA, Wisconsin, June 18 [Category: Economics] -- A Better Wisconsin Together, a state-based research and communications hub for progressives, posted the following news release: * * * Senate Republicans Seek to Stifle Wisconsinites' Fundamental Freedom to Speak Out * MADISON, Wis. -- Over the weekend tens of thousands of Wisconsinites, and millions more across the country, peacefully exercised their freedom to speak out and protest actions of their government. Today, the Republicans in the more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Sierra Club: Trump Set to Give Free Rein to Corporate Polluters to Pollute Public Lands * Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released a draft plan that would open up the largest contiguous piece of public lands in the country to oil and gas drilling. The draft plan would open up 82 percent of the Western Arctic to drilling. The Western Arctic comprises 23 million acres of public lan more PR

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 19 -- The American Soybean Association issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Soybean Farmers Deeply Concerned with Senate Proposal to Reward U.S. Tax Credits to Foreign Biofuel Feedstocks The American Soybean Association expressed disappointment in the Senate Finance Committee's budget reconciliation text that made significant modifications to the House-passed Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit language. The Senate Finance Committee text rev more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSrpt) -- Social Security Works, an organization that says it is fighting to protect and expand Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, lower drug prices, ensure economic justice and guarantee health care as a human right, issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Statement on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report (https://www more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Students Sue Over Trump's Shutdown of Job Corps Program * Today, seven Job Corps students, on behalf of a nationwide class, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor over the Trump administration's decision to close Job Corps centers across the country and shut down the Job Corps program. The plaintiffs are represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and Southern Poverty Law Cen more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Sunrise Movement issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Sunrise Launches "End The Oligarchy, Save Our Futures" Campaign Washington, DC -- Today, Sunrise Movement announced the launch of "End The Oligarchy, Save Our Futures", a bold, youth-led campaign to confront authoritarianism and advance the fight for a livable future. This initiative marks one of the largest coordinated youth efforts in the lead-up to 2026. The campaign utilizes three core st more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Alliance for Justice, an organization committed to fortifying the progressive movement through its focus on federal and state courts and building power by providing resources to maximize nonprofits' advocacy capacity, issued the following news release on June 18, 2025: * * * Supreme Court Abandons Transgender Youth in Ruling for Bigotry Today the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump's Illegal Campbell Plant Extension * West Olive, MI --Today, 10 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy's illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration. On May 23, the Department of Energy issued an order forcing the power plant to remain operational past its planned May 31 expiration date.  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump's Illegal Campbell Plant Extension * West Olive, MI \- Today, 10 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy's illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration. On May 23, the Department of Energy issued an order forcing the power plant to remain operational past its planned May 31 expiration date. The order  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The National Women's Law Center posted the following news release: * * * TODAY: NWLC Urges HELP Committee to Reject Trump's Anti-Worker Nominees * WASHINGTON - Today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold a hearing on several of President Trump's nominees for positions tasked with protecting the rights of workers, including: * Andrea Lucas, the current Acting Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissio more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 [Category: Environment] -- The Wilderness Society posted the following news release: * * * Trump plan for Western Arctic threatens to worsen climate crisis * The Trump administration announced today that it will replace the balanced and science-based Integrated Activity Plan for the Western Arctic with an aggressively pro-drilling version implemented during the president's first term. The plan attempts to dictate management of the 23.6 million-acre National Petroleum Re more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump's Intervention Leaves TVA Paralyzed Without Board Members * Knoxville, TN - Donald Trump has fired three members of TVA's Board of Directors, leaving the Board without enough members to make critical decisions for the federal utility's 10 million customers. At the start of 2025, the TVA Board had six members and three vacancies. In March, Donald Trump fired Michelle Moore, a long-t more PR

NEW YORK, June 19 -- Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law posted the following news release on June 17, 2025: * * * Voters, Civil Rights Groups Seek to Intervene in North Carolina Voting Case Brought by Justice Department A group of North Carolinians, along with a coalition of nonpartisan voting and civil rights organizations, are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit that wrongly challenges the eligibility of more than 200,000 voters. * NEW BERN, N.C. -- A gr more PR